Water cooler and refrigerator



March 2 1926. 1,575,347

I J. W. LUCAS WATER COOLER AND REFRIGERATOR Filed Jan. 19, 1923 Patented Mar. 2, 1926.

JOHN W. LUCAS, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

WATER oooLnn Ann REFRIGERATOR.

Application filed January 19,1923. Serial No. 613,657.

2 '0 all who-m it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN W. LUCAS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in lVater Coolers and. Refrigerators, of which the following is a specification. v

This invention relates to water coolers and refrigerators, and has for its object to provide a builtin cooler and refrigerating apparatus, and more particularly to provide ,a built-in refrigerator which may be built concurrently with the construction of a dwelling or other building, or be readily erected at any time and which is preferably constructed of a heat resistive material,

An object of the invention is to provide a water cooler and refrigerator forming substantially an ice chamber and refrigerating chambers through which domestic water service pipes may be extended and which includes a chamber for receiving ice which is adapted to be disposed directly in contact with the water service pipes so as to reduce the temperature of the water passing therethrough. Another object is to provide a sanitary refrigerating apparatus having drain connections leading to a suitable point of disposal, preferably to the outlet sewer pipe system, and provided also with air vent ing means leading from the refrigerating food chambers.

Other objects and advantages will be made manifest in the following specification of an embodiment of the invention illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a side elevation and partial section showing a fragment of a building with which the improved refrigerator and water cooler is combined.

Fig. 2 is a horizontal plan and section.

Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view of the vent or air outlet.

The present invention is shown as combined with a wall 2 of any building, as for instance a dwelling, the wall being provided with a built-in refrigerating structure prefa crably having walls 3 and 41 of concrete, preferably used because of its heat'resisting characteristics. The cooling structure may be, andpreferably is, extending outwardly from the wall 2 of the building, and has interior partitions 5 dividing the structure into a central ice chamber 6 and lateral coolwhich may ing chambers 7- 7. The several chambers have. respective doors 8-8 at the inner sides and are shown as arranged in the plane of the inside face of the wall, this being rendered possible by the outward projection of the refrigerating structure.

The walls 5 extend upwardly a suitable distance and the top of thejrefrigerating structure is provided with a convergent dome 10 into which the cooling chambers 7, for food, will all openat the top. The dome is providedwith any suitable hood 11 from which may be extended upwardly a vent pipe 12 provided with a cap 13. The cap is designed to shed water and its lower edge is spaced from the outlet end of the vent pipe 12 to provide for circulation, and means are provided for preventing the entrance of insects, such means being shown as a screen 1 1 of suitable mesh; it

The water cooling apparatus is shown as consisting of a cooled water pipe 15 leading from the service pipe 16 and extending into the ice chamber. The bottom of the chamber is provided with a suitable number of lengths or coils of pipe 15 receiving water from the branch 15, and these coils are also extended up into the side walls of the ice chamber as indicated at 15. The water coils 15 and 15 are shown as embedded in the cement bottom and walls of the refrigerator, and an outlet pipe 15 is extended, as for instance, into a position over a sink S arranged within the building. a From this it will be seen that so long as ice is supplied to the ice chamber, the water coils 15 and 15 will be chilled and cold water may be drawn from the valve at the cold water pipe 15".

Constant drainage is provided from the ice chamber as by means of a drain pipe 18. leading from the bottom thereof and having a loop and connecting to the sewer pipe P.

It will be seen that I have provided an extremely practicable, not expensive, and also a sanitary form of combined water cooler and refrigerator having provision for draining of the water from the melted ice,

and also providing for ample ventilation of the chambers of the refrigerator.

Further embodiments, modifications and variations may be resorted to within the spirit of the invention as here claimed.

What is clanned 1s:

1. A built-in refrigerator structure inuding a housing having within t e ame an ice chamber provided with means for access and being closed at the top, bottom, sides and front so as to form a substantially air tight ice chamber, food spaces at the sides of the enclosed ice chamber in the housing and being provided With access doors, the upper part of the housing formmg a ventilating space above the top of the ice chamber, the said ventilating space being in communication w th the said food sp es- 2- A Wat r cooling and refrigerating @011- e hetien comprising the combinati n 'With a building Wall having a suitable opening, of a concrete floor mounted in the opening and extending outwardly, concrete "side Walls mounted in the opening and extending ont- Ward-ly and upwardly from the floor, a (concrete outer wall connecting the side walls and the floor, concrete pa titi n ext ndi g upwardly from the floor and joined, With the outer wall, thus forming three chamhers, a concrete cover for the central chamher, water cooling coils partly imbedded in the concrete Work and adapted to e COD- eeted to a s urce of water supply and o a discharge faucet t e se thamher bein substantially air-tight, and a concrete cowering all three chambers, there being doors leading into each chamber from the inner side, the concrete dome forming a ventilating chamber, such chamber being in communication with the side chambers.

3. A refrigerator construction comprising in combination a building having an outside Wall, a refrigerator extending outwardly therefrom and built in said all, the refrigerator having bottom, Side and ,back W termed imperfomte, n ic hambe co tained i th e igerat r h g a clos top and a, door inside "the building for the insertion of ice, there being cooling chamhers on each side of the ice chamber, doors on the cooling chambers into the building, the c oling hambers be ng open a he p, a roof o ing e tending upwardly fro thee-ides and a k of t e e rig r tor .stru

tune and n ai en at th top of th re structure on the outside of the building, said roo stru ture fo ming a ventilation chamhe above t e cooling hamb rs I tes imony whe eof I h v s gn d my ma ine o th s specification.-

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